The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry, Volume 2Edith Sitwell Little, Brown, 1958 - 1092 pages The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry is the Life's work of a master reader and a practicing major poet: Dame Edith Sitwell. In a volume which is a labor of love as well as of scholarship, Dame Edith has brought together within the covers of a single book the best of poetry in English, from the earliest pre-Chaucerian lyrics to the British and American poets of the 1950's. -Book leaf |
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Page 299
... comes here to Night . LADY . [ Enter Messenger . ] Thou'rt mad to say it . Is not thy Master with him ? who , wer't so , Would have inform'd for preparation . MESSENGER . So please you , it is true : our Thane is comming : One of my ...
... comes here to Night . LADY . [ Enter Messenger . ] Thou'rt mad to say it . Is not thy Master with him ? who , wer't so , Would have inform'd for preparation . MESSENGER . So please you , it is true : our Thane is comming : One of my ...
Page 768
... comes with work to do , he does not come to coo , He comes to brood and sit . THE MAY MAGNIFICAT May is Mary's month , and I Muse at that and wonder why : Her feasts follow reason , Dated due to season Candlemas , Lady Day ; But the ...
... comes with work to do , he does not come to coo , He comes to brood and sit . THE MAY MAGNIFICAT May is Mary's month , and I Muse at that and wonder why : Her feasts follow reason , Dated due to season Candlemas , Lady Day ; But the ...
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... Come away , come away death Come , come deare night , Loves Mart of kisses 328 169 Come down , O maid , from yonder mountain height 682 Come , drop your branches , strow the way 453 Come , let me sing into your ear 795 Come , live with ...
... Come away , come away death Come , come deare night , Loves Mart of kisses 328 169 Come down , O maid , from yonder mountain height 682 Come , drop your branches , strow the way 453 Come , let me sing into your ear 795 Come , live with ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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